The only "scandalous book that lots of people read" in my high school (that I knew about) was Go Ask Alice.
After all the fuss, it was a bit of a letdown to finally read it.
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear. Wash: So?
'Objects In Space'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2009 11:05:42 am PST #23022 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 04, 2009 11:11:45 am PST #23023 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My mom tore out the X-rated pages from Straub's Ghost Story when I pointed them out to her and asked questions, but gave me the rest of the book to finish reading as she had no objection to me reading about murder cover-ups, vengeful ghosts, and Gregory & Fenny Bates.
SuziQ - Dec 04, 2009 11:13:01 am PST #23024 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Go Ask Alice and Forever were the scandalous books I remember reading in middle school.
I want my kids to read. Period.
In MEME news - I hate writing self evaluations.
Hil R. - Dec 04, 2009 11:14:06 am PST #23025 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The only book that I can remember my mother ever telling me I couldn't read was Jephte's Daughter by Naomi Ragen. I borrowed it from my sister, and my mother took it away from me after I'd already read several chapters. I have no idea why that particular book was not allowed, since I'd read plenty of books with much more graphic sex and violence by that time.
Similarly, I wasn't allowed to watch the movie Murder in the First. Only movie I was ever told I wasn't allowed to watch.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2009 11:14:13 am PST #23026 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I hate writing self evaluations.
See if Matt's mom still has the X-rated pages from Ghost Story that you could submit instead....
Aims - Dec 04, 2009 11:14:37 am PST #23027 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I want my kids to read. Period.
For that, I would suggest Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
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-t - Dec 04, 2009 11:19:44 am PST #23028 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can remember my mother complaining to my dad that he shouldn't leave books like Michener's Caravans lying around where I could pick them up and read them, but she never told me not to read that or anything else.
javachik - Dec 04, 2009 11:19:50 am PST #23029 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
All in all, I think I'd rather my kid had the freedom to read whatever s/he wanted whether I knew about it or not.
Jess, I think I am in agreement with you.
javachik - Dec 04, 2009 11:20:28 am PST #23030 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
OMG, I loved Ghost Story.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2009 11:21:20 am PST #23031 of 30001
brillig
my dad always wanted me to stop reading in the van on road trips and look out the window.
My mother and your father are related!--as much as an Indian man and a woman of German-English descent can be related. She'd take books away from me on vacation.